How can stress be positive? Now, what’s this?? I know you guys might be thinking that this question itself is not justified. When I first read about it, I had the same feeling, but wait, let me explain to you the real meaning of stress.
What is stress?
Stress is a natural reaction of the body to changes, resulting in physical, emotional, and cognitive responses. In fact, the human body is built to experience and respond to stress. Stress responses assist your body in adapting to new environments.
For some reason, some words have a poor reputation. One of them is stress. It appears to be a catastrophe of our Western civilization that we all work all day, which stresses us. Stress is responsible for obesity, sickness, and a lack of patience and energy to educate children as they deserve.
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“Stress should be a powerful driving force, not an obstacle.”
―Bill Phillips
In reality, if we search for the word “stress” on Google, we get over 35 million results. Still, the first ones are about fatigue and exhaustion, such as “a state of mental fatigue created by the need for considerably greater performance than normal, frequently causes numerous physical and mental illnesses.”
Stress, from a biological standpoint, is a series of changes that occur in the body as a physical response to specific repeated stimuli, such as cold, fear, joy, and so on. As a result, stress is the body’s way of responding to a problem.
However, it does not have to express a negative feeling or discomfort; it can also provide a positive mental effect. Stress can be positive because it keeps us attentive, motivated, and ready to avoid danger.
Stress is an engine, a natural resource that we have to face the challenges that life throws at us from the moment we are born until we die.
There are additional challenges between these two significant challenges (birth and death): facing the school, a marriage, relationship conflicts, the loss of a loved one, the frustrating situation of a dream, and stress helps us transcend and face those events that compel us to grow.
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“When you find yourself stressed, ask yourself one question: Will this matter in 5 years from now? If yes, then do something about the situation. If no, then let it go.”
―Catherine Pulsifer
It is not stress that makes us ill, but our inability to learn, for example, to ask for help, set limits, and accept criticism. Being an adult is not just turning a year old; being an adult is being able to self-regulate and change to face the stress that being alive generates in us.
Managing Stress
Is stress making you impatient and frustrated? You are not able to manage your stress?? Stress relievers might help you regain control of your chaotic life. If your stress is out of control and you need immediate relief, try one of these suggestions.
- Get enough sleep
- Eat healthily
- Start writing journal
- Start Meditation/yoga
- Connect with others
- Listen or play music
- Excercise
- Start practising what you love, like cooking and gardening or reading.
- Spend time with friends/family
- Seek Counselor
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This seems to be a complete counselling session for people suffering from stress. Let’s face it life without stress is impossible. The only question that you have rightly addressed is how do we handle stress.
Stress is indeed a reality, and it is something that is triggered mostly by external sources. It is in our hands to manage and channelize it towards positive goals. Sandy N Vyjay
Lovely suggestions. It’s good to channel stress in a positive way as we all suffer from it because of some reason or the other. For me, sleeping helps and also yoga helps.
I loved that quote from Catherine. It makes so much sense.
In 5 years if it matters, then do something or just move on. But doing something is in itself a stress.
Stress is part of everybody’s life and it is wise to learn to channelize it as a driving force.
I really love your positive take on stress. Even I believe that I perform better under stress. Although it’s taking a huge toll on my mental and physical health.
When stress help is in moving forward, it no longer feels like stress. Rather it becomes the driving force.
Even though stress can be a good thing its best to have little or no stress. Your tips to manage stress is quite useful????????
I also follow Catheriene principle, and ask question ‘ will this matter in coming future?’ This has helped me relieve from stressful situations.
I think stress is one thing we can’t avoid yet can be managed for it not to affect our lives that much. One way of managing stress is by doing Self-Care. If you’re at your own element and have our hands on every aspect in our lives, stress would surely be lessened and we’ll be able to live life happily.
Life without stress is impossible these days. Everyone is stressed for some reason. I’m really feeling good after reading this article.
I enjoy your piece of work, regards for all the good articles.
Excess of everything is bad. Be it stress or motivation, too much of everything leads to negative consequences. So, it is important to keep a check and balance in our lives. This is especially true when it comes to stress and motivation. Too much stress can lead to negative consequences like anxiety and depression, while too much motivation can lead to unhealthy levels of perfectionism.
We cannot deny that stress is a part of our day to day life, while a little stress is good for each one of us, managing stress levels is an art. Your article sums up stress in a holistic manner.
As I always tell my daughters whenever they get frustrated and stressed out over something, there isn’t anything that’s easy in this world. The right amount of stress actually keeps us going, motivated, and mindful in life. This is a great blog post for everyone to learn!
It’s true that there has been a significant increase in awareness regarding everything mental health. But excess worrying about maintaining the balance there also puts you in a pickle. This article has put a good and consoling spin. Thank you
Stress is something we all have it our life. It’s how we deal with it. Your suggestions are really helpful.
stress — has become a commonly used word across age groups and for everything we keep saying stress hai stress hai, and do nothing about it. actually hume stress ka bhi stress hai . your point to deal with it is excellent and we must learn to differentiate what matters and what doesnt, many take stress unnecessarily as thats the trend, you know what i mean
Never thought about life in this way, what a motivational blog and wow we can take stress in positive way too, that’s the amazing thing. Yes we should think about more if it’s not worthy and let it go. These tips are so helpful and motivating ❤️
I liked your article and really liked the way that we can use our stress in positive way. Such an informative post, will share with my friends too.
Managing stress is very important and timing too. I also consider the question that ‘will it matter after a year or so’ , answer to it keeps my sanity at place.
Stress is a part of every aspect of our lives. We go through stress in almost every situation since childhood. It is very necessary to take it up in a positive way.
Honestly I loved that quotes.. and I actually took my decisions and made commitments according to that only.. whether its going to matter something in next few years.. and I choose my directions. Rest all let it go.
Stress is most common problem these days. We all are stressed in one way or another and dealing right with stress is very important. Thanks for sharing this post